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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

- J. M. CAMPBELL.

SHIRT POCKET. No. 425,750. Patented Apr. 15, 1890.

(Nq Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

J. M. CAMPBELL.

SHIRT POCKET- No. 425,750. Patented Apr. 15. 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. CAMPBELL, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO J. S. LOWVREY & CO.

SHIRT-POCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0; 425,750, dated. April15, 1890.

Application filed October 18, 1889. Serial No. 327,440. (No model.)

To all whom itm/cty concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN M. CAMPBELL, of New York, in the county andState of New York,have in vented a certain new and useful Improvement inShirts, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the improvement is to provide a watch-pocket in which awatch may be secure regardless of the position of the wearer oftheshirt.

The improvement consists in a shirt having an outside pocket adapted toreceive a handkerchief and having an opening at the top and anotherpocketarranged in rear of the pocket first mentioned and having a sideopening, and also a small opening for a watchguard.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front View of a shirtembodying my improvement, with the front opened. Fig. 2 is a front Viewof the shirt closed and having one of the parts of the pocket turnedbackward. Fig. 3is a transverse section taken at the line to to, Fig. 1.Fig. 4 is transverse section taken at the line 00 m, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is avertical section taken at the plane of the line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is atransverse section taken at the plane of the dotted line 2 a, Fig. 1.

Similar letters and figures of reference designate corresponding partsin all the figures.

A designates the bosom portion of a shirt. It has an opening. (Hereshown as located approximately at the longitudinal center.) The edges aa of this opening are secured against raveling. In the present instancethe edge a is protected against raveling by being folded inward andhemmed with a line of stitching 1, and the other edge a is finished inthe manner commonly known as a boxplait. The hemmed portion of the edgect has secured to it buttons a and the edge a is provided withcorresponding button-holes a. (Here shown as arranged in a row in theline of the longitudinal center of the boxplait.) The neck-opening a isprovided with a neck-band a, and from this neck-band a collar A is shownas extending. Adjacent to the hemmed edge a a tuck A is made by means ofa line of stitching 2. This tuck is extended inward, and is so close tothe edge 0/ that it is scarcely discernible, and indeed appears as apart of the finish of the edge portion a. The tuck A extends through thematerial forming the bosom of the shirt, and also through that portionof the neck-band which is adjacent to the edge a. The portion of theneck-band extending adjacent to the edge a is provided with twobutton-holes 3 4, one close to the edge a and the other a short distancefarther away from this edge.

It will be readily understood that with the construction described theedge a is intended to be lapped over the edge a and secured thereto bythe buttons. \Vhen the shirt has the tuck A the button-hole 3 of theneck band is intended to engage with the uppermost of the buttons aShould the shirt shrink so as to become too small, or should the ownerincrease in size and desire more room, the

shirt can be enlarged around the bosom by ripping out the tuck A Afterthis shall have been done the neck of the shirt should be fastened byengaging the button-hole 4 with the uppermost of the buttons a becausethis will make a better centralization or balancing of the differentparts of the shirt.

' It will be observed that the shirtis provided with an outside pocketB, adapted to receive a handkerchief. This in the present instancecomprises two pieces I) Z2 united at the edges and fastened to theoutside of the shirt-bosom. The two pieces forming the pocket aresecured entirely around the side and bottom edges, except at the upperportion of the side which is the nearer to the edge a of the shirtbetween the points 5 6, it being left unattached to the shirt bosombetween these two points. The inner part b of the pocket is secured tothe shirt-bosom across the top, excepting close to the edge of thepocket, which is the nearer to the edge a of the shirt-bosonnitbeingleft unattached to the shirt-bosom between two adjacent pointsas, forinstance, between the points 6 7. It will be seen that the inner part bis not made as wide as the outer part b, and that the two parts used informing the pocket are together secured to the shirt-bosom at the edgewhich is the nearer to the edge a of the shirt-bosom, but are separatelysecured to the shirt-bosom at the opposite edge.

The space between the inner part Z) of the pocket B and the shirt-bosomforms a pocket IOO behind the pocket B. The space throughout which theedges of the parts I) b are left unattached to the shirt-bosom betweenthe points 5 6 forms the opening to the inner pocket for a watch. Thesmall space between the points 6 7, along which the inner part b isunattached to the shirt-bosom, forms an opening through which awatch-chainmay be passed, as may be understood by reference to Fig. 2.The watch-chain may be passed'to abutton-hole and the watch may bewithdrawn from the side opening of the inner pocket and inserted againwithout necessitating the removal of the chain from its opening.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a shirt, of two pockas specified.

JOHN M. CAMPBELL. Witnesses: S. O. EDMONDS,

- C. R. FERGUSON.

